World Bank Group interactions with environmentalists Changing international organisation identities.

Park, Susan.

World Bank Group interactions with environmentalists Changing international organisation identities. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Issues in Environmental Politics S. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719079474; 9780719079474; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Changing IOs: identity andsocialisation; 3 The World Bank and new norms of development; 4 IFC and norms of sustainable finance; 5 MIGA and green political risk?; 6 Conclusion: lending, investing and guaranteeing sustainable development; Bibliography; Index.

This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world?s largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development. The book challenges an emerging consensus over international organisational change to argue that international organisations (IOs) are influenced by their social structure and may change their practices to reflect previously antithetical norms such as sustainable development. This important text locates sources of organisational change with environmentalists, thus demonstrating the ways in which non-state acto.



9781847793331


World Bank.


Environmentalism--International cooperation.
International finance--Environmental aspects.
Social responsibility of business--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
World Bank.
Environmentalism--International cooperation.
International finance--Environmental aspects.
Social responsibility of business--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.


Electronic Books.

GE195 / .W675 2010